We tried calling the cops. There's nothing they can do.
My folks installed cameras - but that doesn't do much either. The cops told them they can't legally record voices, so all they have is video and you can't hear what the people are saying.
I told them not to go to the media because they could be portrayed as grumpy people just not wanting to "give the poor family a chance."
The rest of the neighbors complain privately but are too scared to go to the police. I ended up being the one reported because I confronted the POS family.
Nothing can be done. My folks are losing their house that was paid off through their hard work. That they were supposed to be enjoying in their golden years. Gee, thanks, Pres Bush.
Meanwhile, the POS HUD family gets to "own" a house courtesy of taxpayer subsidies, yet they are able to afford two new cars, a swimming pool, all the things we, the taxpayers, can't afford. Unbelievable.
Perhaps you should be thanking the liberal democrats who implemented the welfare laws that created this situation. The article is lamenting how the evil Bush spending cuts (what a laugh) are cutting into these programs.
Meanwhile, the POS HUD family gets to "own" a house courtesy of taxpayer subsidies,
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER CLASSIC VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long, building his house and laying up supplies for
the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and
laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come
winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper
has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long, Building his house and laying up supplies for
the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and
laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a
press conference and demands to know why the ant
should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others
are cold and starving. CBS, NBC and ABC show up to
provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to
a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a
table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can
this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor
grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the
grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing "It's
Not Easy Being Green." Jesse Jackson stages a
demonstration in front of the ant's house where the
news stations film the group singing "We shall
overcome". Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray
to God for the grasshopper's sake. Al Gore exclaims
in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has
gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls
for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay
his "fair share". Finally, the EEOC drafts the
"Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act",
retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant
is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of
green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his
retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the
government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the
grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and
the case is tried before a panel of federal judges
that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent
welfare recipients. The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing
up the last bits of the ant's food while the
government house he is in, which just happens to be
the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he
doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the
snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug
related incident and the house, now abandoned, is
taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once
peaceful neighborhood.
A relative of mine once owned several rental apartments.
After a few years he sold them all.
And swore never to own rental property again.
I always remembered his advice and his stories, and I will never own rental property either.